Mesopotamia and Egypt project by Preston Pastier

Mesopotamia map

30196_36 — 2024-11-05 17:23:06 UTC

The map of Mesopotamia has the Tigris River, the Euphrates River, Ur, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, the Nile River, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Babylonia

30196_36 — 2024-11-05 17:30:25 UTC

Babylonia was the second empire of Mesopotamia. Hammurabi was the empire of Babylonia he was known for his written laws.

Ancient Egypt 2600 B.C. - 2200 B.C

30196_36 — 2024-11-05 17:39:35 UTC

All of the villages in Ancient Egypt were under one ruler called the Pharaoh. The Pharaohs are the kings of Egypt and they had absolute power. And when the Pharaohs died they went through a stage of embalming where they would take out the organs of the Pharaoh and place them in jars. They would also cover the body in salt and fill the body with spices and wrap the body in bandages to make a mummy.

Sumerian City-States

30196_36 — 2024-11-05 19:06:14 UTC

A city state is a independent state that has they're own social structure and laws and a social structure is upper class, lower class, and middle class the middle class is not or poor the upper class is the richest group but the lower class is the opposite of that they're usually poor.

Sumerian Cuneiform

30196_36 — 2024-11-05 19:09:57 UTC

Cuneiform is a type of writing the sumerians used to use to write law because everybody knew how to read like the a alphabet now in days.

Ancient Egypt Middle & New Kingdoms

30196_36 — 2024-11-05 19:18:37 UTC

The end of the Old kingdom was a big power struggle for Egypt because the Pharaohs and Nobles brought violence to Egypt for 200 Years. That meant the middle kingdom had to rebuild all over again but at least the middle kingdom brought peace and not violence. But at the end of the middle kingdom foreign invaders took over. 100 years later the new kingdom was built bringing all the control back Egypt and they became wealthy.